Comments on: Lies, damn lies and PageRank statistics

By: chris

chris — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:44:12 +0000

Reassuring to see some decent stats in this field. Its the old “causation not correlation”

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:54:36 +0000

The fact it took you 3 attempts to post a comment means I suspect you either didn’t read the article or simply didn’t understand it but if you look at the picture of the DNA, the man and the Pig I think it explains the difference between correlation and effect.

By: susan

susan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:35:21 +0000

great article written after analysis,but the fact is that page rank is responsible for high listing.

By: önder

önder — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:17:40 +0000

For me pagerank is a tool which is a starting point for text link sellers. and here is a point that we have to know; if your web page doesnt include what people are looking for your pagerank doesnt mean anything.

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By: Jamie Horsley

Jamie Horsley — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:04:12 +0000

Page Rank is key to high listings

Jamie

By: Jim McNelis

Jim McNelis — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:02:39 +0000

Well I have enjoyed our little conversation/debate on the matter (seems we do agree for the most part). I made a post on the importance of Toolbar PageRank which is related to our conversation: Why Toolbar PageRank is Important

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:52:39 +0000

You can assign your own weight to a given factor but the PageRank effects the page not the keyword now the page obviously effects the keywords ranking. So whatever ranking factors are in place the combined PageRank factors are only one group. You can debate till your blue in the face how much influence they do or don’t have but as we have already determined they are as a collective not the only factor.

By: Jim McNelis

Jim McNelis — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:41:08 +0000

The PageRank metric uses common factors to those seen as factors in ranking a page but not a given keyword.

I think you are close here Tim, but the statement does not give enough weight to PageRank, in my opinion.

I can fully optimize a page for “life insurance” but no matter what I do with the keywords on-page or off-page, I am not going to be able to achieve a top 10 result in the SERPs for that keyword without PageRank.

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:18:59 +0000

Not really lets try…

The PageRank metric uses common factors to those seen as factors in ranking a page but not a given keyword.

That is a fair and accurate statement if Google does or does not combine the factors is irrelevant their is commonality but more factors go into the ranking of a page for a keyword then simply its PageRank.